Is it a bigger threat than the ones it’s supposed to prevent?
They don’t mention space, but I think that safetyism lies at the heart of Kelly’s and Zach’s concerns.
Category Archives: Economics
Europe’s Rocket Woes
They’re self inflicted.
European rocket politics are complicated by the “geographic return rule,” which states that each member nation must receive a proportional amount of contracts to the amount of funding it contributes to the space agency. “With the dawn of New Space and the delays in Ariane 6 launcher development, an ongoing debate has emerged about whether geo-return is consistent with the competition and competitiveness that is needed in Europe’s space industry,” Aschbacher wrote in March.
#ProTip: It never was.
World War III
Is the west ready for it?
It wouldn’t seem so.
[Mid-morning update]
The CCP is spending more on defense than America.
A Blast From The Past
Someone asked me to sanitize some ancient comments on the blog today, and in the process of doing so, I perused some other posts from that era, and ran across this.
It wasn’t obvious at the time, but it was an historic post in this blog, because it led to all of my essays at The New Atlantis. I don’t know (or at least don’t remember) how Adam found out about it, but he contacted me to argue about/discuss the topic, and he ended up asking me for an essay, which resulted in this (not sure why it’s 404ing and I had to go the Wayback Machine, but I’ll tell the current editor about it).
NASA’s SLS Transition To Commercial Service Contract
“NASA’s aspirational goal to achieve a cost savings of 50 percent is highly unrealistic.”
You don’t say.
I haven’t read the full report, but there will be nothing surprising in it, and SLS supporters will remain in denial about it.
Europe’s SLS
They’re going to subsidize Ariane 6 to launch Jeff Bezos’s satellites.
Rand Paul’s Fauci Expose
…reads like a bioweapons spy thriller.
Except, sadly, it’s not fiction. And Fauci (and others) have yet to be held to account.
Potemkin Village
Thoughts on Russia’s space program.
The Coming Population Decline
Thoughts from Robin Hanson on the fertility reckoning.
Elon worries about this. But I suspect that it will mean that religions that promote fertility, like LDS, will take over.
The Covid Cover Up
Great summary by Jim Meigs.